Anurak Community Lodge

Anurak Com­munity Lodge has been a val­ued “Good Tour­ism” Part­ner since Feb­ru­ary 2024. This is an archive page for Anurak’s “GT” Part­ner messages.

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A lot of thought and plan­ning went into choos­ing the right loc­a­tion for Anurak Com­munity Lodge.

Situ­ated on the edge of Khao Sok Nation­al Park in Thailand’s south­ern Sur­at Thani Province, we opened our doors in early 2016, but the concept for our eco-retreat began to take shape at least two years before the found­a­tions for the first bun­ga­low were even laid.

It was our motiv­a­tion to fill a niche in the mar­ket that spurred us on to build Anurak Lodge and meet a grow­ing demand for out­door eco-friendly adven­tures, aimed at those with a love and appre­ci­ation of nature.

Khao Sok Nation­al Park was of course a nat­ur­al choice to build an Anurak eco-lodge. Its pristine biod­iversity and nat­ur­al beauty make it a pop­u­lar place for both Thai hol­i­day makers and for­eign vis­it­ors alike, look­ing for a truly peace­ful retreat … read more about Anurak Com­munity Lodge.

Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge, Thailand


Anurak Trail - Ecotourism experiences refreshed for 2023 at Anurak Community Lodge in Thailand. Image supplied by Anurak.

Lever­aging its stun­ning loc­a­tion at the edge of the biod­iversity hot­spot of Khao Sok Nation­al Park in Thai­l­and, Anurak Com­munity Lodge is offer­ing its nature-lov­ing guests refreshed eco­tour­ism activ­it­ies.  Gen­er­al Man­ager Trav­is Clark reveals what vis­it­ors can look for­ward to in the new year.  As 2022 slips into 2023, down in the south of Thai­l­and, Anurak […]

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Award-winning Anurak ecotourism experience reopens in southern Thailand


Bamboo rafting is an activity available at Anurak Community Lodge in southern Thailand

Anurak Com­munity Lodge, an award-win­n­ing eco­tour­ism exper­i­ence in south­ern Thai­l­and, has fully reopened fol­low­ing two years of COV­­ID-related uncer­tainty.  The 19-unit nature retreat, which won the PATA Grand Award for Sus­tain­ab­il­ity in 2020, and is Trav­elife Gold cer­ti­fied, offi­cially reopens 1 August with room enhance­ments, a refreshed food and bever­age menu – includ­ing south­ern ‘jungle’ […]

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Anurak Lodge in Thailand wins PATA Grand Award for sustainability


Anurak Community Lodge staff

Anurak Com­munity Lodge’s green cre­den­tials secure the ‘best of the best’ award for oper­at­or YAANA Ven­tures. YAANA Ven­tures, the oper­at­or of Anurak Com­munity Lodge at Khao Sok Nation­al Park in south­ern Thai­l­and, has been awar­ded the 2020 Pacific Asia Travel Asso­ci­ation (PATA) Grand Award in the Sus­tain­ab­il­ity cat­egory. The win­ners were announced dur­ing the online PATA Gold […]

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